Cassandra Curse

 When the scientists,(I forgot their names) were warning people about the permafrost melting nobody believed them. They tried to warn people who didn’t listen like when Cassandra, a person who could see into the future, but nobody would believe what she had to say. When the Greeks used the Trojan Horse Trick to get through the city of Troy,Cassandra knew as soon as they received the huge wooden horse it was bad. Nobody believed her and they decided to bring it inside the walls protecting the city. They brought the big wooden horse in, and the Greek men jumped out and attacked. Cassandra knew, but nobody would believe her because she did not have enough evidence or proof of anything. The scientists who are warning us about global warming are screaming at us! Most people probably don’t believe them because they probably don’t have enough evidence. This teaches a valuable lesson, it teaches that if you need to get an important point across you need evidence and proof.

Casandra help wanted

There were many deaths in the is time. A proper Casandra sounds very loud because they give speeches to groups and want to be heard . Villages were being burned day to day, rumor says they burned thirty hundreds of villages destroyed killed 2 million people. George W Bush was a christian. Andrew was a very successful person this president was very interested in this place Andrew is a very reliable person to Bush.  There is also a permafrost that affect the roads. If we don't attack this our only home will be destroyed if we keep treating the environment like this so please stop doing what we are doing. 

Are you in disagreement?

Many people disagree about things. If I had to try to convince someone to listen to me I would give them reasons of why I feel the way I do. I wouldn’t argue with them because that might make them feel defensive and make them feel even stronger about there side even more. When trying to make someone understand where you are coming from you have to talk to them not yell at them when they aren’t understanding. I would also find evidence. If you find evidence they are more likely to believe you then if were to just say what you believe and just leave it at that. How would you try to make someone understand where you are coming from?

IDK

If I were trying to tell someone they were wrong, but I still wanted them to believe me after, I would try to tell them that they had a good point. For example, I would tell them most people think that, but it is not right. Only a few people know the truth. I think it would be dumb to just let the person go on thinking that. That is the end. Was it good?

We Need Some Febreze!

We Need Some Febreze!

     

     I don't know if my thoughts would change about the Alaskan tunnel if I was able to visit it. The people on the podcast were really throwing me for a loop when they started to talk about the smell. Will air freshener change the smell? Probably for only like two seconds. I don't know about you but, I am not eager to smell a bunch of rotting organic material. At the same time, it could be interesting to see basically pure history! Yes, your nose hairs will probably burn off but it would be cool to learn even more about why this happens. You could think of it as a historic ice sculpture. Now all you need to do is buy yourself a plane ticket to Alaska (or drive I guess) and don't forget to bring your air freshener!

What Did You Say?

   

What Did You Say?

      While listening to podcast about the Cassandra Curse, I started thinking about how people listen to other people's opinions. Cassandra was predicting the future, but the type of language she spoke in (and many other reasons) made people not believe her. People would be confused on what she was talking about and people wouldn't take her seriously. I learned that you should listen to other people's opinions and think about them instead of being so self-centered.

Impact of ignoring warning.

      Monday and Tuesday, we were listening to Hidden Brain Podcast. It was about Cassandra's curse, and curse of Cassandra that applied to the present life. Cassandra could see the future, but nobody believed her. In the Greek myth, Troy and Greece had war. The war took so long. So Greeks made Trojan Horse. Cassandra warned to do not open the gate, but they ignored. They opened the gate, and  Greeks warriors destroyed the village. When Cassandra went to the Greece for the slave, she warned to Agamemnon about the wife's affair. But Agamemnon ignored it, and he got killed by his wife during the bath. Cassandra's curse applied in real world. There is a giant tunnel in Alaska. It is made of permafrost. When the permafrost melts, it emits extraordinary amount of CO2. Global Warming is getting worse now. The Global Warming melts the permafrost. And the extraordinary amount of CO2 that stored in the permafrost makes Global Warming even worse. Everyone say let's reduce the environmental pollution. But people don't care that much. It makes the Global Warming worse and worse. For the another example, in 1983 the Challenger starcraft exploded in the air because of the malfunction. It happened because NASA ignored the warning. And also Andrew Natsios who leaded the USAID, warned about the terror in Sudan. His warnings and advice had an impact, and U.S. supplied billions of dollars in aid to Sudan over the several years. So, listening to the warning carefully is very important. Since now, you need to listen carefully when somebody warning to you!

Cassandra

I learned that you should really take in consideration what other people tell you because it could lead to bad things happening that you could've avoided if you'd have took the advice from the people. I find it fascinating that people loved to give the higher people advice and help of how to do things.

Cassandra Effect

I think we should listen to warnings because bad stuff could happen later because Cassandra said Troy would fall if they let the horse enter but they did and they all died. So the permafrost will release Carbon Dioxide because of global warming.

Alaskan Tunnel...

In the episode I learned that a "cave" in Alaska has a large amount of fungus and moss, it is releasing carbon outside the cave. The cave contains almost two times as much as the carbon that is on Earth. In the episode, they mention that "permafrost" is affecting the world, permafrost is when a frozen organic matter is starting to thaw (melt) because of the temperature change. If I could go to the cave I would see if the thawing is getting worse and if the fungus is releasing more carbon than before. Do you think that the permafrost and the carbon releasing from the cave will get worse?

CaSsAnDrA cUrSe

What I learned from the Cassandra Curse was that you should always listen to people if they are trying to tell you something. You can get people to listen to you by doing good things and being trust worthy. The Cassandra Curse is a very important lesson to teach people to trust others. When you don't listen to others bad things happen. Like with global warming. People choose to ignore it so the problem just get worse. So we have to do something about it.

Listening to the warning...

              Cassandra could tell the future, so why do people not listen to her? I mean I know I probably won't listen to her to but heed her warnings. Isn't being Cassandra great, everyone thinking you are crazy and having no evidence to prove your fortune telling. One of the things I learned is to listen to warnings. I mean lets see how did the NASA rocket go, or even the horse that was a "present." If people would have listened then this might not have happened in the first place. I mean what would you have done if you were Cassandra or even a person listening to her?

the casandra effect

Casandra was a lady who was cursed her entire life. No one would believe her. She would also speak weirdly. No one could understand her. One night her husband was getting stabbed to death and she started to speak but no one belived her.

Cassandra Effect

I learned that it is important to listen to people's' warnings in a big situation. Like the mistake in N.A.S.A., they launched a rocket without listening to the warnings. It killed about nine people in the rocket. The only reason it exploded is because N.A.S.A. didn't listen to a warning. It is like Cassandra, the other people wouldn't listen to her because she was too far in the future and the other people didn't like that.

ThE cAsSaNdRa EfFeCt #2

How I might have someone listen to me is to get evidence that I said or did it. I would be like a crime scene. Bring some new evidence. If they still didn't believe me I would probably just leave them and say, "If you won't listen to me than bye." At least in my mind that's how it went. Then maybe I would move onto someone else and try to convince them to my thing. The thing that i'm trying to prove would be difficult to convince but maybe someone would believe me.

WHY WON'T ANYONE LISTEN TO ME?????

Cassandra’s Curse… No one would listen to her, but why? Andrew has the answer! You can’t just go around to people saying something bad is going to happen. You need proof, you need to convince them. One way of doing this is your connections with other people. For example, ties with important people like the president or celebrities will get you some points. Or better yet, if you are a celebrity! People will listen to others who are well educated, have personal ties and others’ trust, and who make legitimate sense. Andrew did all of these by providing proof which shows he is well educated. Using his ties with the government to convince other people as a way of showing his personal ties. And finally, by making sense in his way of showing the future or predicting what will happen. Unlike Cassandra, Andrew spoke in a language that people can understand; politics, English, and pictures. He used the present to predict the future instead of being ahead of everyone and just saying things like Cassandra. These are all ways to convince and show people what is happening. Don’t be Cassandra. She’s too confusing! If you’re logical, you’ll know what to do! Now all you need to do is ask yourself, am I Andrew or Cassandra?

This is Cassandra...          It's too confusing!!!

эффект кассандры или то, что я не слушал

So The Cassandra Effect (aka the people don't care effect) is down it's most basic of definitions is where someone (or a group of wild someones) won't listen to what you have to say. Now this can be actually a very big problem, in the grand scheme of things, you know especially if you're considering the fact that even if you have to say is backed-up by facts and reasoning no one's gonna listen to you if there's no proof of you having past experience or are of a higher authority (which can be very annoying sometimes).  Ya' hear that folks even if what you're saying could saves thousands of peoples lives, you'll never be listened to unless you're a prominent figure.

Now I've never heard about The Cassandra Effect before, but I had heard about what it is. So really doesn't that just prove another point, in where people will know and understand something but never what it's called or what it stems from.

But now this raises a question, how do you get people to listen to you? Well you can use what I like to call The Puppet Effect, which is where you convince someone that things you came up with or told them was their idea instead of yours. Now this may seem complicated but really it's simple physiology, people are more likely to act upon something if they believe that they played a part in the creation of the idea, object, plan, etc. So yeah mind manipulation is a pretty decent way of getting your point across, even you have to use others to get it.

Mm what do I put after this? Oh I can end it here. Cool. The end I guess.

Mistrusting Mistakes

I learned how important it can be to trust someone in a big situation. But it can be really hard to know what they are saying is right. Nobody believed Cassandra because she was not an insider and she was too far ahead of everybody else. But people believed Andrew and he was able to convince President Bush. I think Andrew was better at talking and explaining then Cassandra. If I was convincing someone I would have done what Andrew did and have some evidence or information to help support my side. We need to try really hard to convince someone in power to take action. We would need to be really convincing and explain what would happen if we didn't take action. I would list the consequences. It would be hard to explain to people how there is the Alaskan tunnel and the things that are down there. It would be hard to convince people about it. This is because I doubt anybody knows about it. But someone still needs to try to convince people to take action there. Will you try and convince someone about something bad to happen in the future?

The Right Way To Success

In my opinion, Cassandra’s Curse taught me many lessons.
However, one lesson that stood out to me was the fact that
you can convince others by the way you behave, the types
of people you know, and the way you talk to them. At first,
I just thought that knowing what you have to tell them
would be enough, but I later found out that people are more
easily convinced by many other reasons far beyond the
words you say. For example, Cassandra was always ahead of
everyone and spoke very confusingly, so it was extremely
difficult for people to follow along with what she was
saying. However, Andrew, who managed to convince
Bush, knew many presidents, got real charts and pictures,
and was different from Cassandra overall in behavior.
So, one could never get their point across and make
people believe in them while the other could easily.
Now, how do you convince others, and does it usually work?

The Curse is Real!

You know those times on the subway where you get on the E line when you're supposed to get on the D line and you end up going the wrong way? You tell your parents many times in advance, but they don't listen, and by then you're already really far away from the destination? Well, you might have the Cassandra Curse! It originated in Greece with a woman who already knew about things in advance, but nobody would listen. You can apply this in real life to the example, or to when the Challenger space shuttle explosion. In 1986, the NASA space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after taking off. You know that rubber ring at the cap of your water bottle? That's an O-ring, and it is used to keep the water from leaking. If it is cracked, then it would leak. It is similar the the Challenger incident. In this case, the O-ring leaked gas. People tried to warn about that it would be safer to replace the ring, but instead the mission was given the go-ahead. Here's a question for you: are you cursed? 

BONUS: Since we have super undeveloped transportation, here's a more relatable example. Say that you and a friend having a good time in Downtown and you need to cross the street to get to the IceCream Store. You go to a crosswalk, and the signal takes forever to change, and it is stuck on the Red Standing-Still Man. Your friend says, "Let's just go, it'll take forever to change," while you say, "Come on, how dumb are you!? You need to wait for the Green Walking Man to appear or else it's jaywalking and you'll get run over by something." Your friend ignores you, and crosses anyway. He says, "I see those all the time on TV." Annoyed, you say, "...those are anti-jaywalking PSAs." Just then, a big tram (wait I thought we had bad transportation and our trams look super ugly anyway) and your friend gets run over. That shows how bad the curse can be. The End.

A Stinky Post.

Love stinky, smelly, and cold Alaskan tunnels? Then you’ll love this blog post! After listening to the person in the podcast explaining the tunnel, I wondered what would happen if I visited the tunnel and how that might affect me. If I visited the tunnel, my first reaction would be, this place stinks……...literally. The tunnel smells because of the permafrost melting. Now, for those people who don’t know what permafrost is, permafrost is frozen soil that preserves stuff. Now, that permafrost is melting which makes the stuff inside to decompose which releases carbon dioxide. In fact, the carbon dioxide released is 2x the CO2 in the atmosphere. After hearing this, my thoughts changed and I thought about global warming. Now, if we don’t change our ways, then we’ll all die. If you were presented this situation, what would you do?

ThE cAsSaNdRa eFfEcT

The Cassandra effect  was a time where girl named Cassandra who predicted things. But these things were bad not good.  No one would believe her though. Everything she said would come true. Even after the first one people acted like nothing happend. This thing occurs when when valid warnings are valid. It is a Greek meaning. She's the daughter of the King Troy. 

The Trek Through The Stinky Tunnel is Too Long

This was a very interesting podcast about how humans don't hear warnings when they are told them. I think that people just need to listen more; for example, when Andrew convinced George W. Bush, Bush listened. I feel like people have to change their perspective so they can see things in a different way. They have to learn to listen and pay attention to who and what is being said. See, if people just have a different look it would be a less threatening world, and that's what we all want, right?

casssandraaaa curseeee

This Cassandra podcast made me think about a lot. If some random stranger just came up to me
and predicted something wild and crazy, would I believe them? Even after listening to the
Cassandra Curse, I still think no. The reason Cassandra was not believed rested on three points.
One, she spoke in a weird language that no one could understand, two, she asked to much
questions, and lastly, she had no formal authority. I think the last point was the main reason
she was not trusted. People tend to trust the people who have high placement, who are
educated, and have leadership.

Take Andrew Natsios for instance, he was a Washington Insider and showed signs of great
leadership, which lead to the successful persuasion of President Bush. But, also against that,
there is the Challenger Space Shuttle incident. Leading to the days of the space shuttle launch,
scientists repeatedly told NASA that they were very concerned about the safety of the O-rings.
The NASA officials dismissed the scientists and continued the launch on the decided date. Think
about it, who would you listen to, the people who actually know the work, or yourself? Usually, we
are stubborn and believe in our own opinion rather than other peoples. This then leads back to
the Cassandra Curse. Would you believe in the ones with formal authority, or the ones who
speak in riddles?

The Cassandra Effect: The effect where no one listens to you!

The Cassandra Effect is where someone predicts something bad happening in the future. However, no one listens to them. Throughout the ages, there have been many "Cassandras" in real life who have predicted the future, yet still no one listened to them. In the ancient city of Troy, there was a young woman whose name is Cassandra. Her father was the king of Troy. She predicted many tragic events and tried to warn people, but they never listened. One day, the Trojans decided to invade Troy. They used the Trojan Horse to get into the city. Nobody knew there were Trojans hiding in the horse. Everyone except for Cassandra. She tried to warn them to not open the gate and let in the giant wooden horse. Nobody listened to her, thus making the whole city of Troy be burned down by the Trojans. The survivors, including Cassandra, got captured by the Trojans. She predicted her captor was going to die. When Cassandra's captor arrived home with her, his wife had plans to murder him. Soon, when he came home, his wife grabbed an axe and hacked him to death, along with Cassandra. Although Cassandra died, all her predictions came true. Many people like Cassandra have tried to change the course of history, and try to get people to listen to them. They all failed at doing one thing. Getting people to listen to them. I challenge you guys to do some research about a topic that will greatly affect our future. Warn people about this topic, and how it could affect our future. Write down how many people listen and how many people don't.

The Tunnel, The Stink and The Frozen Stuff

From the podcast I learned about the Cassandra curse, where no one listens to you (what jerks). I learned that you should always pay attention to what’s going on around you and listen to any warnings because they might end up saving your life.

You know how I would feel if I went to that fancy shmancy Alaskan tunnel? (In other words what I would learn if I went to the tunnel.) It would probably feel very eerie but I would actually be able to understand what they were talking about in the podcast (more than I already did, of course I was listening). The thing that would make more sense if I had been there would be the smell and how it was melting. Obviously I would be able to smell the smell (duh) but I was wondering if just the mouth of the tunnel was melting or the entire inside as well. Another thing that would become more clear would be how much the organic matter has decomposed and how much is left of it. Overall, a lot more things would make more sense. How would you feel if you went through a long, stinky, and possibly deadly tunnel?

Cassandra Effect

If I was already in disagreement with somebody and I was trying to get someone to listen to me to help them see what I know is going on, I would probably tell them that we can set our differences aside. And calmly tell them that they have to trust me, and tell then what I know is going on. How would you explain whats going on to someone stubborn?

tHe cAsandra cUrse

During the podcast Hidden Brain, I learned if your "cursed" by Cassandra no one would believe you. I think I would try and convince someone by getting a person that already trusts me, then I would tell that person to tell the other person what is going to happen so they could believe them. If I had a chance to visit the Alaskan Tunnel I think I would finally believe that the tunnel has more carbon dioxide that coming out than in the world. What would think about the Alaskan Tunnel if you went there?

Ignoring Warnings

I think people should listen to other people's warnings because if you don't there could be huge consequences. Like the permafrost no one is listening to it and there is going to be huge consequences later. Because the permafrost will melt releasing a bunch of carbon dioxide. If I went there I would make a video about the permafrost and say in the future all this will melt and everybody in Louisiana is going to lose their homes because Louisiana will sink and some parts of Manhattan is also going to sink if don't do something about this.

warnings heeded help needed

I think the lesson is that you should listen to other peoples warnings. I think this is the lesson because they showed what happens when people didn't listen to the warnings and it resulted in disaster. One of the examples was when the engineers said that the O rings weren't very good and then the people didn't listen to the warning and the spaceship ended up exploding and killing seven people. If someone wasn't listening to what I knew I would probably give them evidence and try to show them the result of what would happen if they didn't listen to me. How would you get someone to listen to what you know?

c.A.N_SAN-d.r>Az CURZE

Cassandra was a daughter of King Priam. She was a prophet, but she was cursed that nobody would believe her prophecies.

The Alaskan Tunnel's effect on the brain dun dun dun!!!!!!!

         Hello, you are about to read my blog post about the Alaskan Tunnel's effect on the brain. If I had visited the Alaskan tunnel that is spoken about in the podcast I'm almost positive that I would have a different view of everything. Visiting the tunnel would probably make me think more carefully about how much it can affect the world. Because I only listened to the podcast I can't actually get a great idea of the real life size of the tunnel and how much carbon is being released. If I had seen it in person then I would know the actually size of the tunnel and I would be able to get a better idea about how much damage the permafrost could actually cause in our world and what would happen to us if the damage does take place. So now I'm challenging you to make to comment on a post about the Alaskan Tunnel's effect on the brain

The Alaskan tunnel...

       My thoughts might be different today if I had the chance to visit the Alaskan tunnel because the dude was talking about many people don't know about permafrost and how it affects the world. Right now I don't really know how big this tunnel is and if it really does affect the world like the dude says. Like most people I don't really believe what he says unless I see it in person, and if I see it in person I think my thoughts would be different today. How might this change your thoughts if you had the chance to visit the Alaskan tunnel???

The Cassandra Curse!!! (dun Dun DUN) oh and the Alaskan tunnel

   I learned that the ice preserving all of the dead things is starting to melt releasing gasses heating the earth and causing more melting. 

   I would convince people by showing photographic and video graphic evidence, get pictures before the predicted accident, record my prediction (with others around) and then get a picture after to show my prediction was correct, i would show it to everyone and tell them to listen because I know what is going to happen.

   to convince those in power I would get picture of what's happening to the earth and everything over time and show them the world is getting to hot and dying. and if this doesn't stop we will make this earth to hot and we will all die.

   first i probably wouldn't be able to get the smell out of my nose, also i would worry because i would constantly think of how everything is causing melting and i would try to prevent it as much as possible.

don't make us die, make a difference!

The Curse of Terror

This podcast very interesting about how not listening and believing opinions can eventually lead to your own death. This shows how people are super selfish and don't listen to others that are trying to tell you something. The way Andrew convinced George W. Bush is just amazing, and that everyone can do it. I learned from this that I can convince people nicely and could eventually help people. I look forward to helping people and listen to others always. Breaking the curse is the curse of all good!

The Wonders of the Cassandra Curse

    Have you ever heard about the Cassandra Curse? Well if you have then then this will make things more clear for you but, if you haven't then this is your chance to learn the challenges that the Cassandra Curse provides.
     First I'll start off with just what the Cassandra Curse is and who Cassandra is... Cassandra is a Trojan prophet thats profecias are never believed even after they come true.  Now that I said that it should be easy to understand what the Cassandra curse is. But, I will say it anyway, the Cassandra Curse is profetes that are not believed despite their warnings. This is a big challenge for the actual profets because none of the people believe them no matter how hard they try. my question for you is "what would you do if no one believed you when you warned them of danger?"

The Curse Where No One Listens

In the podcast they talk about Cassandra, one that predicts misfortune or disaster. They explained how once Cassandra would say what she predicted no one would believe her. The people  wouldn't take the warning seriously. The lesson I took from this video is that we have relax our minds in the fact that everything you know is correct. You don’t always have to be right and I think that some people do not realize that.

When it comes to people's safety we need to do everything that we can to tell them to take precaution. I understand that it might be easier to just let them figure out what they think is best but in some cases it is necessary to ignore the fact they want to stay and figure out how to help them escape whatever disaster is forming. To convince them we shouldn’t argue with them. It would make them not want to leave even more than they already do. Would you ask them to leave?

the curse

This is how i would convince somebody to what is going to happen in the future. First i would find the evidence video proof that would help me in my case. and i kinda be like that one guy in the podcast that kinda had how the weather is changing and everything is changing around us.

The Cassandra curse

         I learned that you should always listen to details and that even the smallest/quietest  things can matter. There are people that say things that can matter and nobody notices. That is mainly because that person is not respected or trusted for some reason and that means something bad can happen. You should listen to people and make sure that they have the facts to bake it up. So then you can make sure that they are telling the truth.

The cassandra effect (this is interesting)

        I think the cassandra effect was very interesting because it shows how someone who new the future and what was going to happen was not being heard.  I think what I learned from that podcast was people need to be heard more in life so we don't have more disasters in life. The situation on the challenger was someone said the ring might fail. The people didn't listen to him because they had an option where they look at the problem and not show the challenger going to space, or, they take a risk to take the challenger to space and a disaster happened. If I wanted to try and convince someone that something bad was going to happen, I would need evidence. I think it was hard to convince the people that the challenger was going to fail because they were already live on tv. I think it would be difficult to convince someone in an amazing event that is going to happen if they already notified people they were going to. This might not make a lot of sense. sorry. I think just saying that something bad was going to happen to a group of people. you would need to know what is going to happen and have evidence to support the situation. The people in the trojan horse event are like, nope we're not going to listen to you because a lot of other people think that is not the situation of what is happening. I think some people depend on other people to decide if someone is telling the truth or not if someone thinks something bad is going to happen. Also, other people might think that it is a groups choice of making their own decision maybe because of how many more people decide on something more and they just don't want to be in a group of less people deciding on a situation.They should be able to think for themselves on what they think is happening. This is a long paragraph but, what do you think you would do to convince people you are telling the truth?

Cassanrda is cursed. Are you?

From the podcast Hidden Brain I learned that real life Cassandras have a tough time convincing people, but some of those people can get over the curse using some different methods. So for you Cassandras out there I'm going to be telling you some of the methods that I learned from the podcast. One of the methods that I learned was finding data so that the person you trying to convey the information to believes you. Another method is trying to get close to the person so that they trust you and believe you immediately. The last method is to draw a connection from what you are trying to say and the person so that they think it's important. So using these methods I challenge you guys out there to try to persuade someone. This cat drew a connection to persuade.

Blog Post II: The Cassandra Effect

Y'all did an excellent job listening to the Podcast! It takes skill to be able to focus on the spoken word and to take useful notes at the same time. And speaking of those notes, you will need those now for this next blogging assignment. The Hidden Brain Podcast about The Cassandra Curse was all about why we sometimes do not heed dire warnings about upcoming catastrophes. From the lessons of the stinky tunnel to the Greek tales of Cassandra, and of course the difficulties of getting people to listen to the truth. 

Your challenge here is to write a post about the lesson you learned from this episode. How might you try to convince someone else to listen to what you know to be true view when they already seem to be in disagreement with you? Or what, maybe, should we do to convince those in power that action needs to be taken? Or how might your thoughts today be different if you had a chance to visit the Alaskan tunnel spoken of in the podcast? Do your best!

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